Flaring wildfires forced the North County Transit District to halt Sprinter train service at 1 p.m. at the Cal State San Marcos rail station and shutter its customer service window at the Escondido Transit Center, the agency said early Thursday afternoon via Twitter.

A large fire has been burning near Cal State San Marcos since Wednesday afternoon. Smoke from a separate blaze in west Escondido that started on Thursday, and forced evacuations, led to the transit center's customer service window closure, but had not stopped bus and rail service at that center, the transit agency said.